I think that it relates to bargaining power. Right nowthe only leverage that the Ukrainians have to negotiate against giving up territory is to trade Kursk back. If a negotiation is forced by the new US government, the Russians want that leverage gone first, so that they can negotiate to keep held territory.
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Pun or typo?. We’ll never know.
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Agreed.
Trump talks shit, and he’s weak at taking action. That is my point. Here he can likely get away with talking shit, and his opponents will cave.
The wall was bs, but he did get nafta renegotiated by bullying.
He’s got a good chance at coming out of RU and CN negotiations looking good, despite not doing anything.
He’s nothing but a bully, which might actually work here. If it does, then the authoritarians shithawks are going to look really good.
Actually, I am really removed from the US domestic situation, and only impacted by the US foreign policy situation.
I’m just trying to point out that he can use his threats to get what he wants, which is the only tactic that he actually knows how to do. Unless he got smarter since his last tern.
There are some 8 weeks for real action.
Ukraine has clearly stated what they need, and much of it is clear, some is even free. There is no risk of escalation anymore. Do it or don’t do it, but stop playing games.
This is a distraction, and will go nowhere. Women voted for Trump. Try to understand that and move forward with real political action.
The Baltics are in a much stronger position than Ukraine. They are in Nato already, and are geographically important as a buffer to the only Nato members who actually take Russia as a serious threat (Norway, Sweden, Finland and Poland.) Tactically, air and sea defence of the Baltics is externally feasible, and the Baltics nations have focused on building land defense over the recent years. If you combine this with the obvious Russian war fatigue, and lack of resources, it is clear the Russia doesn’t have the capacity to invade the Baltics over the next two years at least, even if the Belarusians participated.
All of this becomes even harder if the Russians are gifted Ukraine and have to occupy it militarily.
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Trump’s not going to need to apply tarifs.
Biden has both Russia and China on the back foot with failing economies, and significant social unrest. Both are desperate to make a deal with Trump. Trump only succeeds in negotiation when he can bully his adversary.
If Biden had the faculties, he could have whipped both countries and probably avoided this mess.
Can you point me to any guides for doing this?
You did in another comment
Your argument is not very strong. Slow death versus fast death? Actually, I think that the IDF might be going about as fast as they can.
I agree that it would have been better to have legitimacy, despite the results. Now you have legitimacy, and bad results.
I don’t know why you are getting down voted. She lost , so she was a bad candidate.
She might have been a good candidate, but she was never chosen in the primaries, so why would the voters choose her.
The candidate wasn’t bad, at least not as bad as 2016. The process was bad. The Democratic primaries have been suspicious for a long time - so they aren’t trustworthy.
Don’t forget all the Democratic shakiness, just because of the Republican shakiness. Democrats needed to gain trust.
Do you think that this is an import from the US kind of thing, or more of a global trend?
yeah, you could be right.